Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne (1572–1631) earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking among his most original and popular works. Brilliant and wide-ranging, Donne's verse is distinguished by its passion, insight, and inspired use of striking metaphors or "conceits." This volume contains a rich selection of the poet's best work, including, from the Songs and Sonnets: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; from the Elegies: "On His Mistress" and "To His Mistress Going to Bed"; a selection from the Holy Sonnets (including "Death Be Not Proud"); "Good Friday. 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more.
SONGS AND SONNETS The Good Morrow "Song ["Go, and catch a falling star"]" Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent The Canonization The Triple Fool "Song ["Sweetest love, I do not go"]" The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day The Anniversary "A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window" Twickenham Garden A Valediction: of Weeping The Flea The Curse "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day" Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy Love's Deity The Funeral The Blossom The Relic A Lecture upon the Shadow EPIGRAMS A Burnt Ship Fall of a Wall Cales and Guiana An Obscure Winter The Liar ELEGIES Elegy I: Jealousy Elegy II: The Anagram Elegy V: His Picture Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegy XVI: On His Mistress Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed EPITHALAMIONS "An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentines Day" SATIRES "Satire I ["Away thou fondling motley humorist"]" "Satire III ["Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids"]" VERSE LETTERS To Mr. Christopher Brooke The Storm The Calm "To Mr. Rowland Woodward ["Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess"]" To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES Elegy on the Lady Markham DIVINE POEMS La Corona Holy Sonnets I "["Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"]" II "["As due by many titles I resign"]" III "["O might those sighs and tears return again"]" IV "["O my black soul! now thou art summoned"]" V "["I am a little world made cunningly"]" VI "["This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint"]" VII "["At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"]" VIII "["If faithful souls be alike glorified"]" IX "["If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"]" X "["Death be not proud, though some have called thee"]" XI "["Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side"]" XII "["Why are we by all creatures waited on?"]" XIII "["What if this present were the world's last night?"]" XIV "["Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you"]" XV "["Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest"]" XVI "["Father, part of his double intrest"]" XVII "["Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt"]" XVIII "["Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear"]" XIX "["Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one"]" "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward" "A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany" "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" A Hymn to God the Father Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines
